WREXHAM AFC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1130924 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CELTIC CRUSADERS FOUNDATION, THE RACECOURSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Wrexham AFC Community Trust

OUR CHARITY PROMOTES WREXHAM FC ACROSS NORTH WALES AND PROVIDES CORE PROGRAMMES IN SCHOOLS AND TO LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS, IT HAS WORKED WITH SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD AND THE PRINCES TRUST OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS AND THE OVERALL AIM FOR THE FOUNDATION IS TO PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF NORTH WALES TO ENGAGE WITH WREXHAM FOOTBALL CLUB.

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIESFOR THE PLAYING OF RUGBY LEAGUE, ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISINGSPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASONOF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY; AND3.4 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHEREXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE".

Area of benefit: WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £129,605, while total net assets rose to £245,744. The charity reports that its reserves are in excess of its six-month policy target. Cash at bank stood at £394,461, though £170,000 of this was held on behalf of the Wrexham Miners' Project.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Steve Morgan Foundation Kicks Off Partnership with Wrexham AFC Foundation businessnewswales.com · 07/11/2025
• Wrexham AFC Foundation announce partnership 'game-changer' leaderlive.co.uk · 19/10/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06931786 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wrexham AFC Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KNIGHT, Joanna Kathryn — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
• ALLYN, Kaleen — director, appointed 06/06/2025on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Michael Travis — director, appointed 06/06/2025on trustee list
• TONER, David Charles — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• GANNON, Mark David — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• KER, David Humphrey Rivers — director, appointed 01/11/2021on trustee list
• MILLER, Jonathan Robert — director, appointed 01/07/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Charles Toner
• JONATHAN ROBERT MILLER
• Joanna Knight
• Kaleen Allyn
• Mark Gannon
• Michael Williamson · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Conwy · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Gwynedd · Shropshire · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WREXHAM (PAROCHIAL) EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

• THE WREXHAM (PAROCHIAL) EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £428k
• WEST HAM UNITED FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• FAMILY FRIENDS (WREXHAM) income £180k
• Swansea City AFC Foundation income £1.5m
• CYMRU FOOTBALL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £8.8m
• CHELSEA FC FOUNDATION income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

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